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    A U.S. Navy Submarine Disaster Block Island Sound, Rhode Island September 25, 1925
    A U.S. Navy Submarine Disaster Block Island Sound, Rhode Island September 25, 1925
    A U.S. Navy Submarine Disaster Block Island Sound, Rhode Island September 25, 1925
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    A U.S. Navy Submarine Disaster Block Island Sound, Rhode Island September 25, 1925

    By Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr

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    S-51 sank almost immediately after it was rammed around 10:30 p.m. off Block Island Sound on Saturday evening, September 25, 1925. Her crew of 34 was in the water, sailors who begged for a line to save their lives. In a Boston courtroom the following December the steamship company that owned the ship City of Rome and the U.S. Navy battled it out. Company officials charged the Navy with having "rookies" manning the conning tower of S-51. The Navy shot back at the opposing lawyers. In their opinion City of Rome's captain had conducted himself poorly in the aftermath of the collision. They said that he had failed to mark the spot of the crash and had not used his searchlights to find any sailors that might have been floundering in the water near the ship.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Grey Reynolds, Jr
    Release dateAug 29, 2015
    ISBN9781310854385
    A U.S. Navy Submarine Disaster Block Island Sound, Rhode Island September 25, 1925
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    Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr

    I am a soon to be retired Duke Medical Center library researcher, who enjoys writing. I have been writing on Wikipedia for years and have begun to writeebooks. My pastimes include selling books on EBay, genealogical research, baseball (Pittsburgh Pirates), collecting antique furniture and coins, and spending time with Kingsley, my cocker spaniel.

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      A U.S. Navy Submarine Disaster Block Island Sound, Rhode Island September 25, 1925 - Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr

      A U.S. Navy Submarine Disaster

      Block Island Sound, Rhode Island

      September 25, 1925

      Published by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr. at Smashwords

      Copyright 2015 by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr.

      This book is dedicated to my father Robert Grey Reynolds Sr. (November 30, 1927-May 15, 2015). He was a Pipefitter Seaman on the U.S.S. Hyman (DD-732) in 1946 and 1947.

      Rescue divers worked throughout the night of Tuesday, September 28, 1925. They searched throughout the hull of the sunken submarine S-51. A search for men a day earlier had now become a search for bodies.

      Officers at the New London, Connecticut United States Naval Station held out little hope that any of S-51's 34 man crew would be found alive. The missing officers and men were imprisoned 130 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. Only two members of the submarine crew had been rescued. The men were transported to Boston aboard City of Rome, the ship that had crashed into S-51.

      The Navy brought in a team of divers who worked for Harris, Scott and Company of New Haven. By Tuesday, the 28th, twenty coffins had been ordered from the Chelsea Naval Hospital by the Newport, Connecticut Naval Station.

      The dead bodies of two victims were already in transit to Newport aboard the U.S.S. Mayan. The Mayan was a light mine layer that helped with the search for victims on September 28. Newport was considered the proper place to send the coffins because it was closer to where the coast wise steamship City of Rome had collided with the submersible thirteen miles to the east of Block Island.

      City of Rome was owned by the Ocean Steamship, Co. It operated freight and passenger traffic between Boston and Savannah.

      The collision of steamer and submarine occurred

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